Folding chicken-coop.



, No. 816,103.v PATENT-En MAR. 27, 1906.

- c.` J. LAIDIG.

FOLDING CHICKEN COOP. APPLIoATroN FILED nu a1. 1905.

e (jbkozneti No. 816,103. PATENTED MAR. 27, 1906.

C. J. LAIDIG. FOLDING CHICKEN COOP.

APPLICATION FILED KAY 31. 1905.

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No. 816,103. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 27,'1906.

Application led May 31, 1905. Serial No. 263,048.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLINTON J. LA'IDIG, a citizen of the United States, residing at St.'` Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Chicken-Coops, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,. forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in collapsible chicken-coops; and it consists in the novel construction and ar. rangement of parts more fully set forth yin the specification, `and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Fi ure 1 is a front elevation of the coop unfo ded. Fig. 2 is a top plan thereof. Fig. 3 is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the coop folded or knocked down, parts being broken away. Fig. 5 is an end elevation of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a sectional detail on line 6 6k of Fig.' 1. Fig. 7 is a sectional detail on Fig. 8 is a transverse section Online 8 8 of Fig. 2. Fig. 9 is a sectional detail on line 9 9 of Fig. 2. Fig. 10 is a sectional detail on line 10 10 of'Fig. 4 and Fig. 11 is a sectional detail of the coop folded, taken in a plane corresponding to the plane of line 9 9 of Fig.2.

The obj ect of my invention isp-to construct a folding chicken-coop which can be knocked down to a compact form, one which will protect the chickensl confined therein, onewhich can be effectively looked, and one possessing further. and other advantages better apparent from a detailed description of the invention, which is as follows :v p

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the top wall; 2, the front Wall; 3, the rear wall; 4 4, the end walls of the, coop, and 5 the bot-v tom. The base 2 of thefront wall and the base 3 of the rear Wall extend above the bottom Wall tol prevent the chickens from accidentally allowing their feet to project out of adjacent coops or otherY objects. The end walls 4 4 are pivotally mounted between the bases 2 2 on pins or trunnions 6 6 and can be folded against the bottom 5, Fig. 4. The free upper ends of the walls 4 4 are provided with pins 7 7, 'which enter corresponding sockets in the walls 2 3 for the' unfolded pol sition of the coop, Fig. 3. arrangement locks the four vertical walls 2, 3, and 4 4 together. The opposite endsl of each of the front and rear bases 2 3 are provided with straps 8, which are passed through openings 9, formed inthe lower slats of the walls 2 '3, thus forming a hinge for said walls 2 3 Fig. 7. The latter walls 2 3 are folded against the end walls 4 4 in the knocking down of the coop.

Disposed along the upper edges of the rear wall 3 are staples 10, which form not only a hinge connection, but a sliding connection for the rods 11 11 of the top wall, the latter u on the unfolding of the coop being capa- 4 b e of being shoved back through the staples to any degree, as best seen by dottedpositionof the top in Fig. 3. For the unfolded 'position of the coop the front spring-latches 12 of the top engage the corner strips or blocks 13.0f the front Wall.' For the knockeddown position the same latches engagesockets 14 1'4, formed in the base 2. The middle slat S of the top is temporarily confined at its ends under the staples 15 15. This slat .is thinner than the remaining slats of the series and by bending the same outwardly can be disengaged from `the staples 15 and removed, thus affording access to the inside of` the coop. Upon reinsertion of this slat S back into its position a pin 16 ofthe top Wall enters a hole 17, Fig. 8, in the slat and locks the same in position. The top locked (for the knocked-down position of the coop) at its forward end, as shown in Fig. 10, is simultaneously locked in the rearby hooks 18, engaging the slat above the opening 19 of the base 3', Fig. 11 these same hooks for the unfolded position of the coop-entering recesses in the top horizontal slat of the rear wall 3, 1g; 9. i l

I may of course depart in a measure from the details here shown without in any wise affecting the nature or spirit of my invention.

I-Iaving' described my invention, what I p claim is A folding chicken-coop, comprising a bottom, front and rear and end walls adapted to vfold against the bottom, staples disposed along the free edge ofthe rear Wall, a top wall havngrrods loosely passed through said staont spring -latches on the top wall fol ed position of the cop, the base of the IOO front Wall having sockets for the reception of yielding bendable rer'novabl the latches, aseries of hooks on the rear of the the top Wall7 substantially as set forth. 1o top Wall, the base 'of the rear Wall having In testimony whereof I aiix my signature openings for receiving said hooks7 for the in presence of two witnesses.

e slat carried by 5 knocked-down position of the coop, and the CLINTON J. LAIDIG.

upper portion of the rear Wall having re- Witnesses: cesses for the reception of the same hooks for EMIL STAREK,

the unfolded position of the coop, and a W. C KILLEEN. 

